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Ship borers
Answer for the clue "Ship borers ", 7 letters:
teredos
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n. (plural of teredo English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Teredo \Te*re"do\, n.; pl. E. Teredos , L. Teredines . [L., a worm that gnaws wood, clothes, etc.; akin to Gr. ?, L. terere to rub.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, ...
Usage examples of teredos.
Up and down, up and down, and all the time their thin canvas grew thinner in the tropical sun and the sudden prodigious downpours, their running rigging, incessantly passing through the countless blocks as they trimmed sail, gradually wasted away in those wisps called shakings, and the weed accumulated on their bottoms, while through the gaps in their copper the teredos thrust their augers through the oak.
Unbeknownst to us, the Fiberglas on one had been rubbed off against a piling at the little marina where she lay docked and teredos had gotten at the plywood underneath.
You see that the frames are cracked, teredos have gotten into the rudder post, there’s dry rot in the mast step, the sails are mildewed, the keel bolts are rusted, and the fastenings are ready to let go.